A one-year prison sentence was imposed in Turkey on journalist Sener Leved.The Turkish Cypriot journalist
In a post on social media, Levent said that "the criminal trial against me in Ankara has been completed and I was informed of the court's decision this morning. The Ankara Criminal Court sentenced me to one year in prison on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan."
Mr. Levent recalls that the trial concerns an Afrique-Avrupa publication with a cartoon that was considered by Ankara to be "offensive."
Mr. Levent adds the following: "We were tried and acquitted in our own 'court' for the same case. However, because they did not recognize the decision of our court, they started a new trial for the same case in Ankara. And they convicted me in absentia."
The Turkish Cypriot journalist adds the following: "The fascist government in Ankara, which has intensified its pressure on us, aims and tries to intimidate in our country all those who oppose it. Just as they do not recognise the decision of our 'court' and I do not recognise the decision of their court. Justice that has been squeezed between the two lips of a dictator is already dead in Turkey."
Source: KYPE
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